[The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe Book of Snobs CHAPTER XXVIII--ON SOME COUNTRY SNOBS 6/11
'That was the way the Carabases got their peerage,' the misanthropic Ponto said after dinner. Well--I rang the bell at a little low side-door; it clanged and jingled and echoed for a long, long while, till at length a face, as of a housekeeper, peered through the door, and, as she saw my hand in my waistcoat pocket, opened it.
Unhappy, lonely housekeeper, I thought.
Is Miss Crusoe in her island more solitary? The door clapped to, and I was in Castle Carabas. 'The side entrance and All,' says the housekeeper.
'The halligator hover the mantelpiece was brought home by Hadmiral St.Michaels, when a Capting with Lord Hanson.
The harms on the cheers is the harms of the Carabas family.' The hall was rather comfortable.
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